Not the most creative name, but it’s a good all-purpose light background.
Source Dmitry
From a drawing in 'The Quiver of Love', Walter Crane, 1876
Source Firkin
Used correctly, this could be nice. Used in a bad way, all hell will break loose.
Source Atle Mo
Original seamless pattern with an Inkscape filter.
Source Firkin
From a drawing in 'Hyde Park from Domesday-Book to date', John Ashton, 1896.
Source Firkin
A seamless chequerboard pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i. Alternative colour scheme.
Source Firkin
Sweet and subtle white plaster with hints of noise and grunge.
Source Phil Maurer
Thin lines, noise and texture creates this crisp dark denim pattern.
Source Marco Slooten
From a drawing in 'Worsborough; its historical associations and rural attractions', Joseph Wilkinson, 1879.
Source Firkin
Dark and hard, just the way we like it. Embossed triangles makes a nice pattern.
Source Ivan Ginev
A tile-able background for websites with paper-like texture and a grid pattern layered on top of it.
Source V. Hartikainen
A fun-looking elastoplast/band-aid pattern. A hint of orange tone in this one.
Source Josh Green
Neat little photography icon pattern.
Source Hossam Elbialy
Here's a dark background pattern that contains a steel grid pattern as a texture. Use it as a website background or for other purposes. It's free!
Source V. Hartikainen
Just the symbols of the signs of the zodiac distributed in a chequer board-like pattern
Source Firkin
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
Zerro CC tillable texture of stones photographed and made by me. CC0
Source Sojan Janso
A re-make of the Gradient Squares pattern.
Source Dimitar Karaytchev
Dark squares with some virus-looking dots in the grid.
Source Hugo Loning